For Founders
Architecture that survives growth, your first engineering hires, and a technical story investors take seriously.
Fractional CTO
Engineering leadership for companies that can’t hire it full-time yet.
I’m Miguel Tineo. Head of Engineering at Hivenet, fractional CTO for founders and scale-ups. Ten years of scaling teams and systems at Zendesk, Dutchie, and Hivenet.
Services
Part-time CTO. Full ownership.
I work with a small number of companies as their part-time CTO: technical strategy, hiring, and delivery leadership without the full-time salary.
For Scale-ups
Team structure, delivery that speeds back up, and platform decisions backed by a decade of scar tissue.
Proof
Track Record
- Years leading engineering teams
- 10+
- Engineers hired and mentored
- 50+
- Daily requests scaled
- 10M+
Selected Work
Recent Work
Distributed Cloud Infrastructure
Leading 9 teams and 30+ engineers building distributed cloud storage and compute. Modernizing product delivery toward a leaner, AI-first model while hardening the platform for enterprise customers.
Platform Engineering at Scale
Cut AWS costs 30% while traffic grew. Scaled distributed services handling millions of daily POS and e-commerce transactions, with teams across Europe and the US.
Real-Time Services Architecture
Scaled real-time messaging to 10M+ requests per day, the backbone of Zendesk’s omnichannel customer experience platform.
Team Building & Mentorship
Mentored 50+ engineers into senior and lead roles. The pattern behind it: psychological safety, honest feedback, and delivery pace a team can sustain.
Newsletter
Bear Essentials
Bi-weekly notes on engineering leadership, AI agents, and distributed systems. Written by a practitioner, not a content team.
Speaking
Speaking Topics
Available for conferences, panels, and workshops.
Leading Distributed Teams Across Time Zones
How to build and run engineering teams across countries and cultures, drawn from managing teams spread between Europe and the US.
Balancing Velocity and Stability in Cloud Systems
Shipping fast without breaking things, with real examples from systems handling millions of requests per day.
Coaching Engineers to Become Leaders
A framework for developing leadership skills in senior engineers, based on mentoring 50+ engineers across multiple organizations.
Cloud Cost Optimization at Scale
Practical strategies for cutting cloud infrastructure costs without sacrificing performance, including how I cut AWS spend by 30% while traffic grew.